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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Movie Director George Stevens has filed a $2,000,000 lawsuit against NBC and Paramount Pictures for this airing of A Place in the Sun, a film that won him an Oscar in 1951. Network continuity cuts and commercial interruptions, says Stevens, constitute a "rape" of the film...
...Rhodesian African nationalist movement--although they differ on methods--are absolutely united on establishing an African government based on democratic socialism. They both agree on a program of land redistribution and on the need for an educational system geared not to Great Britain but to Rhodesia. The immediate, paramount objective of both is the deposition of Ian Smith's rebel government. The People's Caretaker Council, led by Joshua Nkomo, is seeking a solution to the present crisis through compromise; the Zimbabwe African National Union, led by Ndabiningi Sithole, wants to overthrow the Smith regime through confrontation by any possible...
Nanook bombed in the U.S. but ran for six months in London and Paris, and in 1923 Paramount's Jesse Lasky gave Flaherty $250,000 to make a similar picture about village life in Samoa. Photographically speaking, Moana was the most beautiful movie made until that time-but beauty cut no ice with Paramount. Chopped in half, the film was billboarded as THE LOVE-LIFE OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN. For the next seven years the moneymen hid when they saw Flaherty coming...
...give one of the sternest speeches that New York had heard in a long time. "The government of this city," he said, "will not allow the power brokers in our city, or any special interest, to dictate the terms under which it will exist in New York. The paramount issue confronting us today is whether New York City can be intimidated. I say it cannot and will...
...ground, merely getting fed and bedded down were the paramount problems. At B. Altman's department store, 500 late shoppers and employees dined on Russian caviar, specially blended coffee and other exotics from the imported-delicacies department. Few others ate that well. At Bloomingdale's, men and women slept in the home-furnishings and medical departments. Restaurants and bars did a booming business?though many rely on electricity to make their ice, pump their water, cook their food, wash the dishes, count the receipts, and of course light the premises...